Never been an addictive person.
I'm a little concerned about becoming dependent to a relatively mild pain prescription. It's Vicodin but the dose assigned to me is for someone about 1/2 my size. I do actually have a need for it in the relatively short term because of a side effect from the white blood cell booster called Neupogen.
Neupogen taken over a few days to boost cell counts can cause severe bone pain. It's fairly hard to describe that pain feels like but at least once (before I realized what the problem was) it put me in the ER with what amounted to an ambulance ride. In fact, it was a level of pain I'd never experienced (and having done some dumb things in my life I've experienced some profound pain).
But I've also noticed that when I take this med for the bone pain it also wipes out the myriad smaller aches and pains I've apparently grown somewhat accustomed to and I feel very nearly normal (which means I feel GREAT). I can stand up without my hips yelling at me. I can walk around without some random joint suggesting I jump off a bridge. My back doesn't question make disparaging remarks about how my mom dresses me.
And work is so much nicer for the absence of this discomfort I wasn't aware had gotten outta control.
I'm a little worried but in the end, when there is no more legitimate need for it I won't attempt to get the prescription filled again. But this is as close to a true addiction as I've come and I could very easily see how someone could fall face first into that mudpuddle. And if I had to rely on these meds for a longer period of time . . . then I would be very worried.
Neupogen taken over a few days to boost cell counts can cause severe bone pain. It's fairly hard to describe that pain feels like but at least once (before I realized what the problem was) it put me in the ER with what amounted to an ambulance ride. In fact, it was a level of pain I'd never experienced (and having done some dumb things in my life I've experienced some profound pain).
But I've also noticed that when I take this med for the bone pain it also wipes out the myriad smaller aches and pains I've apparently grown somewhat accustomed to and I feel very nearly normal (which means I feel GREAT). I can stand up without my hips yelling at me. I can walk around without some random joint suggesting I jump off a bridge. My back doesn't question make disparaging remarks about how my mom dresses me.
And work is so much nicer for the absence of this discomfort I wasn't aware had gotten outta control.
I'm a little worried but in the end, when there is no more legitimate need for it I won't attempt to get the prescription filled again. But this is as close to a true addiction as I've come and I could very easily see how someone could fall face first into that mudpuddle. And if I had to rely on these meds for a longer period of time . . . then I would be very worried.